Larry Sultan.
American (Brooklyn, New York, 1946 - 2009, Greenbrae, California)
This piece of artwork is interesting because it looks like a normal photograph that anyone can take haphazardly during the day. However, this photo tells more than you think at first glance though. The photographer is obviously older because the woman has white hair and that is his mother posing for him. He was born in Brooklyn but died in California and it looks as though they are in California here because of the clothing that they are wearing. The television and lamp are older models so we can tell that this photo was not taken very recently. The man who’s back is towards us (who I assume is the photographer’s father) sits very relaxed so we get the feeling that this is his home. The woman wears a long sleeve shirt yet the man wears a short sleeve shirt. They both are wearing white pants so I assume that it is warm out and probably the summer time. The man is watching a baseball game and the woman is tense and probably nervous. This picture is from a series of pictures from home so she must have been doing quite a few poses around the house for a while. From this picture we can assume many things because of what we typically see and how we perceive and make judgments of what we see. This photo has many possibilities of different scenarios but I’d like to think of the most reasonable one from what I can observe in the picture.
American (Brooklyn, New York, 1946 - 2009, Greenbrae, California)
This piece of artwork is interesting because it looks like a normal photograph that anyone can take haphazardly during the day. However, this photo tells more than you think at first glance though. The photographer is obviously older because the woman has white hair and that is his mother posing for him. He was born in Brooklyn but died in California and it looks as though they are in California here because of the clothing that they are wearing. The television and lamp are older models so we can tell that this photo was not taken very recently. The man who’s back is towards us (who I assume is the photographer’s father) sits very relaxed so we get the feeling that this is his home. The woman wears a long sleeve shirt yet the man wears a short sleeve shirt. They both are wearing white pants so I assume that it is warm out and probably the summer time. The man is watching a baseball game and the woman is tense and probably nervous. This picture is from a series of pictures from home so she must have been doing quite a few poses around the house for a while. From this picture we can assume many things because of what we typically see and how we perceive and make judgments of what we see. This photo has many possibilities of different scenarios but I’d like to think of the most reasonable one from what I can observe in the picture.
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